by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 23, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Identity, Christian Living
One of the benefits of being an itinerant preacher is that you get to visit many church communities and meet many church leaders; and learn from them. Last weekend we were ministering at the Chapel of the Resurrection and I heard the vicar, Revd David Lee, ask the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 16, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, Evangelism, Jesus, Jesus' Life, Loving Others, Spiritual Friendship
There is one thing the synoptic gospels agree on — Jesus spent a lot of time eating with “undesirables”, so much so that the religious leaders of the day were upset that He spent so much time with sinners. (For the record, we are all sinners.) The...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 9, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, Church, Loving Others, Small Groups, Soo-Inn Tan
I have had the privilege of working with my friends in Wesley Methodist Church, Singapore, to help set up their new discipleship initiative, Discipleship Bands. Here is how they define a discipleship band: A “Discipleship Band” is a group of three or four people, who...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 2, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, Following Jesus, Jesus, Spiritual Friendship
What does it mean to be a friend? In recent times I have been looking to the gospel of John for some answers. John is the gospel where Jesus calls His disciples friends (John 15:14), and then commands them to love each other as He has loved them (John 15:12). The love...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 26, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Authors, Christian Living, Discernment, Rest & Busyness, Soo-Inn Tan, Spiritual Maturity
This year I find myself feeling more tired more often. At the beginning of the year, I thought it was grief from my mother’s passing in Oct 2021. Then I had COVID in May, and, when that was over, I thought it might be long-COVID. But maybe all that it is, is my body...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 18, 2022 | 2022, Books, Remembrance
This is how Frederick Buechner begins his book Speak What We Feel: It is Red Smith who is reported to have said that it’s really very easy to be a writer — all you have to do is sit down at the typewriter and open a vein. (Speak What We Feel [New York, NY:...
